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PSYC 110 - Introduction to Psychology

Lecture 09 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Love. Guest lecturer Peter Salovey, Professor of Psychology and Provost of Yale University, introduces students to the dominant psychological theories of love and attraction. Specific topics include the different types of love, the circumstances that predict attraction, and the situations where people mistakenly attribute arousal for love. (from oyc.yale.edu)

Lecture 09 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Love

Time Lecture Chapters
[00:00:00] 1. Introduction to Dr. Peter Salovey
[00:02:02] 2. Defining Love and Its Permutations
[00:16:22] 3. The Social Psychology of Love and Attraction
[00:43:53] 4. Misattribution for the Causes of Arousal
[01:03:46] 5. Question and Answer

References
Lecture 9 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Love (Guest Lecture by Professor Peter Salovey)
Instructor: Professor Paul Bloom. Resources: PowerPoint Slides from Screen - Lecture 9 [PDF]. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov].

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Lecture 01 - Introduction
Lecture 02 - Foundations: This Is Your Brain
Lecture 03 - Foundations: Freud
Lecture 04 - Foundations: Skinner
Lecture 05 - What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought
Lecture 06 - How Do We Communicate?: Language in the Brain, Mouth and Hands
Lecture 07 - Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Language (cont.); Vision and Memory
Lecture 08 - Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Vision and Memory (Cont.)
Lecture 09 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Love
Lecture 10 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Evolution and Rationality
Lecture 11 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part I
Lecture 12 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part II
Lecture 13 - Why Are People Different?: Differences
Lecture 14 - What Motivates Us: Sex
Lecture 15 - A Person in the World of People: Morality
Lecture 16 - A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part I
Lecture 17 - A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part II; Some Mysterious
Lecture 18 - What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part I
Lecture 19 - What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part II
Lecture 20 - The Good Life: Happiness